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Overview
The Clothing Store Career is a confirmed but unreleased active career path for inZOI. Zois will work at clothing stores running the floor, helping customers, and managing inventory. The career was named explicitly in Director Hyungjun Kim's April 17, 2026 community letter as one of the features prepared but not yet ready to ship. The current live build is v0.8.5 (May 15, 2026 hotfix), based on the v0.8.0 release of April 29, 2026. v0.8.0 added a Clothing Store business type (mannequins displaying preset and custom outfits, available in Cahaya), but the Clothing Store Career itself has not yet shipped as a playable career path and remains deferred.
Confirmed Components
Component | Description |
|---|---|
Active Career Type | Players control their Zoi during shifts at the store rather than relying on a rabbit-hole abstraction. |
Retail Workplace | Dedicated clothing store lots will be added to at least one city. The career is expected to use the same storefront framework as the v0.8.0 Clothing Store business type. |
Customer Service Loop | Greeting customers, recommending outfits, ringing up purchases, and restocking shelves. Similar in structure to the existing convenience store and surf shop active careers. |
Promotion Path | Multiple ranks; specific salaries not yet announced. |
Possible Business Ownership Tie-In | After v0.8.0 the player-owned business framework supports thirteen preset business types (including Clothing Store) plus the freeform Open Lot. The Clothing Store business type is already a player-ownable business; whether the dedicated employee career layers on top of it is not yet confirmed. |
Connections to Existing Systems
the city's clothing store is the existing in-game commercial brand. The Clothing Store Career may interface with the city's clothing store stock and inventory.
Clothing lists current outfits. The career will surface those items at retail.
Furniture Store Career is a structurally similar live career and likely shares retail mechanics.
Convenience Store Career is another reference point for the cashier and stocking flow.
Timeline
Date | Status |
|---|---|
March 26, 2026 | Clothing Store Career first hinted at in the v0.7.0 anniversary update preview materials. |
April 17, 2026 | Confirmed by name in the community letter as a feature prepared but not yet ready to ship. |
April 24, 2026 | Confirmed deferred past May 2026 along with the Hair Stylist Career and several other in-development systems. |
April 29, 2026 | v0.8.0 launched. A Clothing Store business type was added (mannequins displaying preset and custom outfits in Cahaya), but the Clothing Store Career itself was not included and remains deferred. |
Current target | Not specified. Bundled with the next major content patch. |
Open Questions
Whether stores will sell only player-purchased outfits or include unique career-only stock.
Tip and commission mechanics, if any.
Cross-promotion with the in-game Clothing Store business type and the in-game shopping app.
Player-ownable business support (i.e., whether Zois can run their own clothing store).
Salon and clothing store overlap (some upcoming retail roles share styling and recommendation mechanics).
Business Type vs Active Career
The phrase Clothing Store appears in two distinct v0.8.0 contexts and they should not be conflated.
Item | Status in v0.8.0 | Description |
|---|---|---|
Clothing Store business type | Shipped April 29, 2026 | Available as one of the in-game business types in Cahaya. Mannequins display preset and custom outfits; players who own this business type sell clothing through the standard business management loop. |
Clothing Store Career (this article) | Deferred | The active career path that lets a Zoi work shifts at a clothing store as an employee. Confirmed by name in the April 17, 2026 community letter as in development; deferred again in the April 24 letter; not included in the v0.8.0 patch. |
If the goal is to play retail gameplay today, the Clothing Store business type is the available path: own the lot, run shifts as the owner, and serve NPC customers. The dedicated employee career is still pending.
Watching for the Career Drop
The official roadmap thread is the canonical source for confirming the active career has shipped. Three concrete signs to watch for in a future patch note:
A Career app entry titled Clothing Store, listed alongside the new v0.8.0 careers under Dowon, Bliss Bay, or Cahaya.
Active-career-style daily-task structure (greet, recommend, ring up, restock) appearing in a workplace lot description rather than only in a business-ownership context.
Update history table mentioning Clothing Store Career as a new active career, not a business type.
Until those land, treat the existing Convenience Store and Furniture Store career articles as the closest structural analogues for what the Clothing Store Career will probably look like.
See Also
Hair Stylist Career is a parallel deferred career. Furniture Store Career is the most structurally similar live retail career. Convenience Store Career covers cashier and stocking flow. the city's clothing store details the in-game commercial brand. Business covers the player-owned business framework. 2026 Roadmap tracks delivery status. April 2026 Update provides the deferral context.